Senate GOP marketing campaign hits Democratic Arizona Sen. Kelly right before Republican major

Sarah Westwood

June 14, 11:50 AM June 14, 11:50 AM

Arizona’s contentious Republican Senate main isn't right up until Aug. 2.

But the Senate GOP campaign arm is by now hoping to soften up the winner's fall opponent, Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly.

In an advertisement set to hit the airwaves Tuesday, the Countrywide Republican Senatorial Committee portrays Kelly as operating in lockstep with the unpopular President Joe Biden, whose very low approval scores are by now dragging down Democratic candidates.

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“Politicians all declare they’re various,” a narrator intones at the begin of the advertisement, adopted by a clip of Kelly assuring voters that he’s “doing items in a different way.”

“Differently?” the narrator responds. “Last yr, no U.S. senator was extra politically one particular-sided and faithful to Joe Biden than Mark Kelly.”

The location, witnessed first by the Washington Examiner, options a FiveThirtyEight evaluation that Kelly voted with Biden’s agenda 100% of the time in 2021 and has voted with Biden 97% of the time so considerably this 12 months.

Kelly is a major goal of Republicans looking to choose again handle of the Senate.

Biden’s collapsing support in Arizona, which very first strike a very low place in April, and the continuing scrutiny of his immigration agenda in a border condition have imperiled a potent incumbent.

Kelly is a robust fundraiser in a point out that Biden carried in 2020.

But Biden’s margin of victory in the state was very low: He won Arizona by a very little much more than 10,000 votes out of the extra than 3 million ballots forged.

And the political landscape has shifted substantially considering that that slim victory.

Continue to, Kelly could profit from a protracted major fight amongst Republicans.

Popular Republican Gov. Doug Ducey declined to enter the race against Kelly, and a trio of GOP candidates are battling to challenge the Democrat this drop.

Arizona Attorney Typical Mark Brnovich, attorney Blake Masters, and businessman Jim Lamon are all preventing for the Republican nomination. Brnovich sales opportunities in most polls, but Masters seems to be getting steam ahead of the late summer season main.

Masters secured a coveted endorsement from former President Donald Trump and has also savored assist on the airwaves from Club for Expansion, an influential conservative political motion committee.

The Club for Growth has aired adverts getting goal at Lamon in excess of his business dealings, whilst a great deal of the professional-Masters expending has concentrated on confronting Brnovich, who has regularly polled larger than Lamon.

But countrywide Republicans are searching in advance to the battle against Kelly, who, along with Nevada Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez-Masto, is a best western concentrate on for the get together.

“Whether it be his fake concern about the border crisis or his self-declared independence, Mark Kelly suggests 1 thing to Arizonans but does a further in the U.S. Senate,” NRSC spokesman T.W. Arrighi told the Washington Examiner. “His 97% voting history with President Biden is all the evidence Arizonans need to have to vote him out of office environment.”

The NRSC’s 7-figure purchase against Kelly will air the advert in Spanish, as effectively as English.